From: Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage just unmerged my openrc
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 20:03:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3055328.44csPzL39Z@lenovo.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200512184640.GA32370@ACM>
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On Tuesday, 12 May 2020 19:47:21 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Gentoo.
>
> Portage has just unmerged my openrc-0.34.11. I didn't ask it to. I'm
> not very happy about this.
>
> I did
>
> # emerge -auND @world
>
> , and after dealing with five packages, it just warned me that openrc
> was a critical system package, then went ahead and unmerged it.
>
> I presume that if I'd tried to reboot, I would have failed. I've
> manually emerged openrc again (version 0.42.1), and it looks like it
> will work, but I haven't tried it yet.
>
> What's up with Gentoo at the moment? Uninstalling system critical
> packages automatically is a big deal, and shouldn't happen.
I can't see how 'emerge -auND @world' would unmerge any package, let alone a
@system package, without first emerging a later version. Have you messed up
with your make.profile symlink by any chance?
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-12 18:47 [gentoo-user] Portage just unmerged my openrc Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-12 19:02 ` Rich Freeman
2020-05-12 19:25 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-05-12 19:36 ` Dale
2020-05-12 20:29 ` Matt Connell (Gmail)
2020-05-12 21:27 ` Dale
2020-05-12 20:55 ` Rich Freeman
2020-05-12 19:03 ` Michael [this message]
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